How Wokery Dominates Society

American Thinker ^ | 18 Apr, 2021 | Michael Curtis

[MtnClimber]

We live in a continually changing world, with new concepts and ways of developing practical arguments and evaluating moral truths on race, sex, and sexual issues. Today, those ways are seen through the prism of racial justice, emphasized in colonial and post-colonial studies, Critical Race Theory, intersectionality, queer studies, gender studies. These are part of the present obsession with race and sex. At the heart is the pessimistic, postmodernist contention critical of the possibility of objectivity, questioning whether there can be reliable knowledge about a reality that exists independently of human perception.

There is a prevailing sensibility of new fundamentalisms in academia, Hollywood, parts of media, featuring race and identity politics, a new religion, in which individuals are reduced to their politics, and formulation of simple categories: victim and guilty, oppressed and oppressor.

Because of the incessant targeting and advocacy of this sensibility, too many people remain silent for fear of abuse for any challenge. Indeed, people may accept agreeable lies or misstatements and cling to them rather than cause difficulties.

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The acute answer to wokery is laughter. John Cleese, 81-year-old well known acerbic satirist, not wanting to be left behind by Azaria, immediately commented on the confession. He mockingly offered his own apologies on behalf of Monty Python for all the many sketches they did making fun of white English people: "We're sorry for the distress we may have caused." Cleese was also serious and to be taken seriously. The call to be nice to people finished up as humorless, censorious, literal-minded, posturing ideology.

The impact of wokery is pervasive. Apologies have also come from the Rowntree Society, a small charity, and its associates, which promotes the history of the Rowntree chocolate company, founded in 1822 — apologies for the fact that the wealth of the company

[MtnClimber]

Wokery is voluntary insanity. I make fun of it at every opportunity.

[alloysteel]

The national debate has wandered far from its original intents and purposes. Now it has become “You should shut up and sit down”, delivered with threats and actual acts of violence.

No compromise, no appeal, no mercy, and certainly no logic in what is essentially bullying, after this campaign for so long AGAINST all forms of bullying, to make things “nicer” for young skulls full of mush. Other older skulls full of mush have taken this as a “go-ahead” and apply it with a vengeance.

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[conservativeimage]

Wokey hokey.